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Year 2024

• (October, 2024) Linglong Dai attended the Boston Urban Forum as a guest speaker.


• (October, 2024) Linglong Dai attended the Tsinghua University Scholars Meeting in the USA alongside Hongwei Wang, the Vice President of Tsinghua University, and other faculty members.


• (October, 2024) Linglong dai gave a tutorial “Near-Field Communications for 6G: Fundamentals, Challenges, Potentials, and Future Directions” on The 2024 IEEE 100th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-2024 Fall）.


• (September, 2024) Linglong Dai and Zijian Zhang was listed as Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists in 2024.


• (July, 2024) Doctoral graduate Zidong Wu received the Tsinghua University Outstanding Graduate and Tsinghua University Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation awards; master's graduate Yenhao Chen received the Beijing Municipal Outstanding Graduate and Tsinghua University Outstanding Master's Thesis awards; undergraduate graduate Jiaqi He received the Tsinghua University Meritorious Graduate and Tsinghua University Department of Electronic Engineering Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis awards.


• (July, 2024) 2024 Tsinghua-Huawei “MIMO Wireless Communication Theory and Technology” summer courses were held successfully, attracting over 300 teachers and students.


• (June, 2024) Linglong Dai gave a report “Coded Beam Training for RIS Assisted Wireless Communications” on the 3rd Frontlers of Electronics and Information Conference.


• (June, 2024) Linglong Dai gave a tutorial “Near-Field Communications for 6G: Fundamentals, Potentials, Challenges, and Future Directions” with Haiyang Zhang and Yonina C.Eldar on ICC 2024. [Recorded Video][Presentation Slides]


• (May, 2024) Linglong Dai gave a talk “Near-Field Channel Modeling and ChannelEstimation for XL-MlMO and EIT” on the 2nd National Terahertz Communication Technology Forum.


• (May, 2024) Linglong Dai gave a report “Terahertz Beam Training: from Far Field to Near Field” on the 2nd National Terahertz Communication Technology Forum.


• (May, 2024) Linglong Dai gave a report “6G Physical Layer: Requirements, Enabling Technologies and New Perspectives” on Strategy and Technology Workshop of STW 2024.


• (May, 2024) Linglong Dai gave an invited report “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for 6G: Advanced Algorithm & Architecture Design” on the 3rd China Metamaterial Conference.


• (April, 2024) Linglong Dai gave a report “Near-Field Communication Theory and Technology for 6G” on the 17th China Electronics & Information Conference.


• (April, 2024) Linglong Dai gave a report “Near-Field Communications for 6G: Fundamentals, Potentials, Challenges, and Future Directions” on Globeal 6G Conference in Nanjing, China.


• (February, 2024) On the occasion of the Spring Festival in 2024, the laboratory released its annual summary for the first time, outlining the exceptional accomplishments in course teaching, academic research, talent development, and other areas during 2023.


• (January, 2024) The thesis of Wei Xiuhong, a graduate of the laboratory's master's degree, was selected into the 2023 Master's Thesis Incentive Plan of the China Communications Society.



Year 2023

• (December, 2023) Our paper “Delay-Phase Precoding to Alleviate the Beam Defocus Effect for Circular Arrays ” (authors: Zidong Wu and Linglong Dai) received the IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 Best Paper Award.


• (December, 2023) Linglong Dai gave a tutorial “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for 6G: From Academic Research to Industry Development ” on IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 with Yifei Yuan. [Presentation Slides]


• (November, 2023) Linglong Dai was listed as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in 2023.


• (September, 2023) Linglong Dai was commended for receiving the title of Excellent Instructor for 2022 Beijing Undergraduate Graduation Design (Thesis) at the Teachers' Day celebration conference of Tsinghua University.


• (August, 2023) Linglong Dai gave a tutorial “Beamforming Technologies for Ultra-Massive MIMO in Terahertz Communications ” on IEEE/CIC ICCC 2023 with Chong Han and Zhi Chen. [Presentation Slides]


• (June, 2023) Linglong Dai, Haiyang Zhang and Yonina C. Eldar gave a tutorial “Near-Field MIMO Communications for 6G: Fundamentals, Challenges, Potentials, and Future Directions ” on IEEE ICC 2023. [Presentation Slides]


• (May, 2023) Linglong Dai was invited to give a presentation “Electromagnetic Information Theory: Fundamentals and Applications” for the 16th China Electronics & Information Conference.[Presentation Slides]


• (February, 2023) Linglong Dai was invited to give a presentation “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for 6G: Advanced Algorithm & Architecture Design” for the 2th RIS TECH Forum.[Presentation Slides]


• (January, 2023) Our hardware demo: “Low-power communications based on RIS and AI for 6G” is exhibited in the second RIS TECH Forum.



Year 2022

• (December 4, 2022) Linglong Dai was invited to give a keynote talk “Electromagnetic Information Theory: Fundamentals and Applications” for the Huawei workshop of IEEE Globecom 2022.


• (July 27, 2022) Linglong Dai was invited to give a keynote talk “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for 6G: The Paradigm Shift from Channel Adaption to Channel Manipulation” for RIS Tech Alliance. [Recorded video] [Presentation Slides]


• (June 24, 2022) Ruochen Su and Zidong Wu received the 2022 EE star scholarship.


• (May 23, 2022) Linglong Dai was invited to give a keynote talk “Near-Field Communications for Extremely Large Antenna Array” for the Huawei workshop of IEEE ICASSP 2022. [Recorded video] [Presentation Slides]


• (May 18, 2022) Our demo proposal “Demo: Low-power communications based on RIS and AI for 6G,” received the IEEE ICC 2022 Outstanding Demo Awards. [Demo Paper]


• (May 17, 2022) Linglong Dai gave the presentation “Active RIS vs. Passive RIS Which Will Prevail in 6G” on IEEE ICC 2022 special workshop on RIS. [Presentation Slides]


• (May 16, 2022) Linglong Dai and Yonina Eldar gave a joint tutorial “Near-Field Communications for 6G: A Tutorial” on IEEE ICC 2022. [Tutorial video] [Tutorial slides]


• (April 28, 2022) Linglong Dai gave the tutorial “Electromagnetic Information Theory: From Mathematical Channel to Physical Channel” on JCCI 2022. [Tutorial slides]


• (April 24, 2022) Zhiyi Li and Kunzan Liu received the Grand Prize of the 40th "Challenge Cup" Technological Innovation Competition of Tsinghua University. This is the only Grand Prize in the field of information technology.



Year 2021

• (December 16, 2021) Jingbo Tan received the 2021 Tsinghua University Linfeng Award.


• (December 3, 2021) Kunzan Liu received the 2021 Tsinghua Grand Scholarship (the highest award for Tsinghua students).


• (November 24, 2021) Linglong Dai was elevated as an IEEE Fellow.


• (November 16, 2021) Linglong Dai was listed as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in 2021.


• (October 12, 2021) Jingbo Tan and Xiuhong Wei received the 2021 National Scholarship for Graduate Students (20000 RMB for Master winners, and 30000 RMB for Ph.D. winners).


• (July 31, 2021) Based on our previous RIS prototype received the 2020 IEEE Access Best Multimedia Award, our enhanced prototype of RIS-aided wireless communications with 256 RIS elements at the base station side, 2304 RIS elements at the relay side, and 256 RIS elements at the user side, was demonstrated for three days at IEEE/CIC ICCC 2021@Xiamen, China.


• (July 8, 2021) Linglong Dai was invited to give a talk on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) for beyond 5G for British Telecom (BT), a British multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England.


• (April 14, 2021) Linglong Dai was invited to serve as a member of the Expert Committee of Samsung Electronics China Communication Research Institute, which is composed of five professors in China.


• (March 19, 2021) Our paper “Reconfigurable intelligent surface-based wireless communication: Antenna design, prototyping and experimental results”, received the 2020 IEEE Access Best Multimedia Award.



Year 2020

• (November 18, 2020) Linglong Dai was listed as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in 2020.


• (August 20, 2020) Our proposal “Theory and Verification of Teraherz Mobile Communications” was funded by the Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, with the fund of 3.03 million RMB and collaborators including UESTC and BUPT.


• (June 7, 2020) Our IEEE JSAC paper “Spectrum and Energy-Efficient Beamspace MIMO-NOMA for Millimeter-Wave Communications Using Lens Antenna Array” (authors: Bichai Wang, Linglong Dai, Zhaocheng Wang, Ning Ge, and Shidong Zhou) has received the 2020 IEEE ComSoc Leonard G. Abraham Prize.


• (March 12, 2020) Our work “Reconfigurable intelligent surface-based wireless communication: Antenna design, prototyping and experimental results”, together with the video of the hardware prototype demo, has been published.


• (January 22, 2020) Linglong Dai was appointed as the Secretary of IEEE Communication Society Asia Pacific Board for the term of 2020-2021.


• (January 16, 2020) Linglong Dai was invited to give a talk “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) for 6G: A Paradigm Shift from Adapting Channels to Changing Channels” at the SECWC Annual Meeting of Samsung Electronics China Communication Research Institute.


• (January 10, 2020) Linglong Dai presided the 2019 Teaching Exchange Annual Meeting of Tsinghua University.



Year 2019

(December 24, 2019) Linglong Dai received the 2019 Liu Bing Award of Tsinghua University.There are 10 awardees in Tsinghua University every year for their excellent performance in student supervision.


(December 11, 2019) Tian Xie received the 2019 Chinese Institute of Electronics Excellent Master Thesis Award.


(November 21, 2019) As the representative of the Exellent Tutor Award of the 16th “Challenge Cup” Technological Innovation Competition, Linglong Dai shared his experiences with Prof. Yong Qiu, the President of Tsinghua University.


(November 12, 2019) Zhidong Wu, Zhongzhichao Wan, and Zijian Zhang received the the National Special Award of the 16th “Challenge Cup” Technological Innovation Competition. This is the highest award in this national competition.


(November 7, 2019) As the representative of the first prize winners of the 11th Beijing Municipal Young College Teachers' Basic Teaching Skills Competition, Linglong Dai was invited to share his teaching experiences with Tsinghua professors.


(September 1, 2019) Linglong Dai was appointed as the Area Editor of Wireless Communications II for IEEE Communications Letters.


(August 29, 2019) Linglong Dai received the First Prize of the 11th Beijing Municipal Young College Teachers' Basic Teaching Skills Competition in 2019. There are 6 first-prize winners from Tsinghua University in this teaching competition.


(August 12, 2019) Our paper “Geometric mean decomposition based hybrid precoding for mmWave massive MIMO systems” (authors: Tian Xie, Linglong Dai, Xinyu Gao, Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir, and Jianjun Li) received the 2019 China Communications Best Paper Award. There are two papers receiving this award out of all 700+ papers published in the journal China Communications during 2016-2018.


(July 6, 2019) Xinyu Gao received the 2019 Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of Tsinghua University.


(May 28, 2019) Bichai Wang received the 2019 Paul Baran Young Scholars for her contribtution on NOMA for 5G. There are 3-4 winners every year all over the world, and each winner will receive $5,000 from the Marconi Society. She is the first student winner in mainland China.


(May 25, 2019) During the IEEE ComSoc flagship conference IEEE ICC 2019 in Shanghai (May 20-24), we exhibited the prototype demo of the machine learning based mmWave communication using a large reflectary array with 256 antennas.



Year 2018

(December 28, 2018) Three experts from China Mobile visited our recent new progress on the hardware demo of machine learning based wireless communications.


(November 21, 2018) The first formal Ph.D. student Xinyu Gao received the 2018 Tsinghua Grand Scholarship, the highest scholarship for Tsinghua students.


(October 22, 2018) Prof. Lajos Hanzo (Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering) from University of Southampton, UK, visited our lab and the 256-element large-scale MIMO wireless communication prototype.


(October 8, 2018) Our paper “Non-orthogonal multiple access for 5G: Solutions, challenges, opportunities, and future research trends” (authors: Linglong Dai, Bichai Wang, Yifei Yuan, Shuangfeng Han, Chih-Lin I, and Zhaocheng Wang) received the 7th IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award.


(August 24, 2018) Bichai Wang, Xinyu Gao, Jingbo Tan, Shuangkaisheng Bi, and Min Wang received the National First-Class Award of the 13th China Electronic Design Competition for Graudate Students. Their awarded project is wireless communication prototype based on massive electromagnetic surface array.


(July 8, 2018) Wenqian Shen received the Tsinghua University Excellent Ph.D Thesis Award (Top 6%).


(July 8, 2018) Tian Xie received the Tsinghua University Excellent Master Thesis Award (Top 5%).


(July 8, 2018) Ruocheng Su received the Tsinghua University Excellent Bachelor Thesis Award (Top 5%).


(June 18, 2018) We have successfully developed the hardware platform of machine learning based end-to-end wireless communication system. [Show picture]


(May 22, 2018) Our paper “Beamspace channel estimation for wideband millimeter-wave MIMO with lens antenna array” (authors: Xinyu Gao, Linglong Dai, Shidong Zhou, Akbar Sayeed, and Lajos Hanzo) received the IEEE ICC 2018 Best Paper Award. This year ICC has 2431 paper submissions, 972 accepted papers, and 15 Best Papers (Top 1.5%).


(May 15, 2018) We have successfully developed the hardware platform of 256-element electromagnetic surface array based wireless VR transmission system. [Show picture]


(May 4, 2018) We have a new paper on NOMA with 29 pages accepted by IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. The impact factor of this journal is 17.188, ranking No. 1 out of all 89 SCI journals in the field of telecommunications.


(April 20, 2018) We have successfully developed the hardware platform for real-time high-speed VR wireless transmission based on massive MIMO.


(April 16, 2018) Three students from our lab (Xinyu Gao, Bichai Wang, and Tian Xie) received the 2017 IEEE Transactions on Communications Exemplary Reviewer Award.


(March 24, 2018) Xinyu Gao received the IEEE ICC 2018 Student Travel Grant Award ($ 800).


(March 24, 2018) The Chinese version book "Compressive Sensing for Wireless Networks" (10 chapters, 224 pages) was published by Tsinghua University Press. Click the link above to buy this paper with a discount.


(Febuary 6, 2018) Our paper on hybrid precoding for mmWave MIMO systems has received 150 Google scholar citations.

[J30] X. Gao, L. Dai, S. Han, C.-L. I, and R. W. Heath, “Energy-efficient hybrid analog and digital precoding for mmWave MIMO systems with large antenna arrays,” IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 998-1009, Apr. 2016. [Full Paper] [Simulation Codes]


(January 15, 2018) Linglong Dai received the 2017 IEEE Communications Letters Exemplary Editor Award.


(January 8, 2018) Ruochen Su, a new Ph.D. student in our lab, was elected as the Vice President of Tsinghua University Student Union.



Year 2017

(December 21, 2017) Our survey paper on millimeter-wave massive MIMO was accepted by IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. The impact factor of this journal is 17.188, ranking No. 1 out of all 89 SCI journals in the field of telecommunications.

[J58] S. A. Busari, K. M. S. Huq, S. Mumtaz, L. Dai, and J. Rodriguez, “Millimeter-wave mMassive MIMO communication for future wireless systems: A survey,” to appear in IEEE Commun. Surv. Tut., 2018. [Full Paper]


(December 6, 2017) Linglong Dai received the 2017 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award.


(November 24, 2017) Our participated propsoal “R15 Based R&D of 5G Base Station Prototype” for the National Science and Technology Major Project was successfully granted by MOST (from Jan. 2018 to Dec. 2019).


(November 17, 2017) The following three papers from our group are ESI Top 0.1% Hot Papers.

[J30] X. Gao, L. Dai, S. Han, C.-L. I, and R. W. Heath, “Energy-efficient hybrid analog and digital precoding for mmWave MIMO systems with large antenna arrays,” IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 998-1009, Apr. 2016. [Full Paper] [Simulation Codes]

[J32] X. Gao, L. Dai, Z. Chen, Z. Wang, and Z. Zhang, “Near-optimal beam selection for beamspace mmWave massive MIMO systems,” IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 1054-1057, May 2016. [Full Paper] [Simulation Codes]

[J26] Z. Gao, L. Dai, Z. Wang, and S. Chen, “Spatially common sparsity based adaptive channel estimation and feedback for FDD massive MIMO,” IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 63, no. 23, pp. 6169-6183, Dec. 2015. [Full Paper] [Simulation Codes]


(October 15, 2017) Tian Xie received the 2017 National Scholarship for Graduate Students (20000 RMB for Master winners, and 30000 RMB for Ph.D. winners).


(October 14, 2017) Linglong Dai has published 10 IEEE JSAC papers, out of which he is the first author of 5 papers and the corresponding author of the other 5 papers. The current IF of IEEE JSAC is 8.085, which ranks No. 4 out of all 89 SCI journals in the field of telecommunications.


(September 24, 2017) Our paper on beamspace MIMO-NOMA has received the IEEE VTC 2017-Fall Best Student Paper Award. Only one paper out of all 475 accepted papers is able to receive this award.

[C39] B. Wang, L. Dai, X. Gao, and L. Hanzo, “Beamspace MIMO-NOMA for millimeter-wave communications using lens antenna arrays,” in Proc. IEEE 86th Veh. Technol. Conf. (IEEE VTC'17 Fall), Toronto, Canada, Sep. 2017. [Full Paper] [Simulation Codes]


(August 24, 2017) Out tutorial paper on Millimeter Wave Communications has been published in IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications.

[J49] M. Xiao, S. Mumtaz, Y. Huang, L. Dai, et al, “Millimeter Wave Communications for Future Mobile Networks,” IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 35, no. 9, pp. 1909-1935, Sep. 2017. [Full Paper]


(August 21, 2017) We have one invited paper “Angle-Based Codebook for Low-Resolution Hybrid Precoding in Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Systems” accepted by IEEE/CIC ICCC'17.


(August 18, 2017) Linglong Dai received the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Outstanding Young Scholars.


(June 30, 2017) Yang Yang has passed his Postdoc Research Report Defense (Title: Research of network capacity enhancement in 5G heterogeneous networks). He will be a lecturer of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) since July 2017.


(June 28, 2017) Yuan Zhang received the Excellent Undergraduate Dissertation Award of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University.


(May 17, 2017) Linglong Dai was appointed as the Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (the Special Issue on Hybrid Analog-Digital Signal Processing for Hardware-Efficient Large Scale Antenna Arrays, Part I, Part II), a top journal in the field of signal processing with high reputation (the current impact factor is 2.569). The Call for Papers is available online, and the submission deadline is September 15, 2017.


(April 10, 2017) Linglong Dai received the 2017 Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Communications.


(April 10, 2017) Wenqian Shen and Tian Xie received the 2017 Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Communications.


(Mar 15, 2017) Linglong Dai was invited to give a 3-hour talk on FDD massive MIMO for the 2017 Joint IEEE SPS and EURASIP Summer School on Signal Processing for 5G Wireless Access. The registration deadline is April 30, 2017.


(February 24, 2017) Our proposal "Key Signal Processing Technologies for 5G Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO with Lens Antenna Array" was approved by The Royal Academy of Engineering of United Kingdom with the fund of GBP 100,000 for two years (Apr. 2017-Mar. 2019).


(February 16, 2017) Xinyu Gao will study in Prof. Akbar Sayeed's research group in University of Wisconsin (US) for half year (from March 2017 to September 2017).


(January 15, 2017) Two of our papers on hybrid precoding and NOMA become ESI top 1% Highly Cited Papers.


(January 14, 2017) Linglong Dai received the 2016 IEEE Communications Letters Exemplary Reviewer.


(January 10, 2017) Linglong Dai received the 2016 Second Prize of the Science and Technology Award of China Institute of Communications (Linglong Dai, Zhaocheng Wang, and Zhixing Yang).


(January 10, 2017) Our paper on pilot design for massive MIMO received the 2016 Electronics Letters Best Paper Award. There is only 1 paper out of all 1062 candidate papers published in Electronics Letters in 2014 received this award (Top 0.1%). This is the first journal paper from the first Ph.D student guided by Dr. Linglong Dai since his work from Jun. 2013.

[J11] Z. Gao, L. Dai, and Z. Wang, “Structured compressive sensing based superimposed pilot design in downlink large-scale MIMO systems,” Electron. Lett., vol. 50, no. 12, pp. 896-898, Jun. 2014. [Full Paper] [Simulation Codes]



Year 2016

(December 28, 2016) The student research training (SRT) project on 5G received the First-Class Award of Excellent Projects of SRT Program of Tsinghua University (Yuan Zhang, Zhijie Chen, Yu Zhang, Ziyan He, and Yubo Chen).


(December 28, 2016) Linglong Dai received the First-Class Award of Excellent Tutors of Student Research Training (SRT) Program of Tsinghua University.


(December 22, 2016) The SRT student Yuan Zhang from our lab received the Tsinghua Grand Scholarship, the highest scholarship that any student can receive in Tsinghua University (only 10 winners outof 15000+ candidates can be rewarded, Top 0.06%).


(November 18, 2016) Linglong Dai was appointed as the Leading Guest Editor of the IEEE Wireless Communications (the Special Issue on Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for 5G), a top journal in the field of communications with high reputation (the current impact factor is 4.148). The Call for Papers is available online, and the submission deadline is February 28, 2017.


(October 15, 2016) Our paper “Beamspace Channel Estimation for 3D Lens-Based Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Systems” (authors: Xinyu Gao, Linglong Dai, et al.) received the WCSP 2016 Best Paper Award.


(October 11, 2016) Bichai Wang received the 2016 National Scholarship for Graduate Students (20000 RMB for Master winners, and 30000 RMB for Ph.D. winners).


(October 8, 2016) Xinyu Gao passed the Doctoral qualification examination and ranked No. 1 in his group. In the past three years, three Ph.D students have passed the Doctoral qualification examination, and Zhen Gao ranked No. 2 in 2014, Wenqian Shen ranked No. 1 in 2015, Xinyu Gao ranked No. 1 in 2016 in their groups, respectively.


(September 23, 2016) Our proposal "New multiple access technique with massive connectivity and low latency for 5G wireless systems" was jointly approved by the Minister of Science and Technology of China and National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) with the fund of KRW 120,000,000 for two years (Mar. 2017-Feb. 2019).


(July 14, 2016) Linglong Dai was appointed as a Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (the Special Issue on Millimeter Wave Communications for Future Mobile Networks), a top journal in the field of communications with a long history (over 30 years) and high reputation (the current impact factor is 3.672). The Call for Papers is available online, and the submission deadline is October 15, 2016.


(July 12, 2016) The booking information of our English book "mmWave Massive MIMO: A Paradigm for 5G" is available online.


(July 4, 2016) Chen Hu received the Excellent Undergraduate Dissertation Award of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University.


(July 2, 2016) Zhen Gao received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University (Ph.D thesis: Research on Compressive Sensing Based Key Techniques for Massive MIMO Systems). He has published 3 book chapters, 13 SCI journal papers, and 7 EI conference papers. He is recruited as an Assistant Professor of Beijing Institute of Technology since July 2016.


(June 27, 2016) Linglong Dai was promoted as an Associate Professor of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University.


(June 2, 2016) Zhen Gao received the Academic Star of Tsinghua University (11 winners out of 30,000+ candidates, Top 0.03%).


(June 1, 2016) Wenqian Shen was accepted by the Government-Sponsored Graduate Student Program funded by China Scholarship Council (CSC). She will study in Prof. Robert W. Heath's research group in University of Texas at Austin for 1 year (from Sep. 2016 to Aug. 2017).


(May 5, 2016) Yang Yang received the General Financial Grant from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation.


(February 29, 2016) Jiayi Zhang has passed his Postdoc Research Report Defense (Title: Performance Analysis of Non-ideal Massive MIMO Systems). He has been recruited as an Associate Professor of Beijing Jiaotaong University since March 2016.


(January 15, 2016) One of our paper on massive MIMO was listed as ESI top 1% highly cited papers in the field of engineering.


(January 14, 2016) We presented 4 technical proposals on Massive MIMO and Millimeter-Wave Communications at the IMT-2020 (5G) conference.



Year 2015

(December 31, 2015) We have finished a project on MIMO funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (from Jan. 2013 to Dec. 2015).


(December 28, 2015) Linglong Dai received the First-Class Award of Excellent Tutors of Student Research Training (SRT) Program of Tsinghua University.


(December 28, 2015) Both of our two Student Research Training (SRT) projects on massive MIMO and NOMA received the First-Class Award of Excellent Projects of SRT Program of Tsinghua University.


(December 16, 2015) Zhen Gao received the 2015 National Scholarship for Graduate Students. He ranked No. 2 among the PhD winners.


(December 16, 2015) Xinyu Gao received the 2015 National Scholarship for Graduate Students. He ranked No. 1 among the master winners.


(August 24, 2015) We have a new project on NOMA for 5G was granted by National Natural Science Foundation of China (from Jan. 2016 to Dec. 2019).


(August 15, 2015) Zhen Gao received the IEEE MILCOM 2015 Student Travel Grant.


(June 22, 2015) Linglong Dai received the 2015 IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting Best Paper Award.


(June 18, 2015) Yanjun Han received the Excellent Undergraduate Dissertation Award of Tsinghua University. (Top 5%)


(June 18, 2015) Bichai Wang received the Excellent Undergraduate Dissertation Award of Tsinghua University. (Top 5%)


(March 15, 2015) We have a new project on wireless sensor network with massive users funded by International Science & Technology Cooperation Program of China (from Mar. 2015 to Mar. 2017).